Warmer and Wetter than Normal across Eastern Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY

London, KY

JUNE 2011 ENDED UP ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION-WISE WITH THE JACKSON
WEATHER OFFICE OVER THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH WETTER...WHILE THE
LONDON CORBIN AIRPORT WAS OVER TWO INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. IN FACT...IT
WAS THE 10TH WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD AT LONDON. ON THE TEMPERATURE
SIDE OF THE FENCE...BOTH LOCATIONS WERE ABOUT A DEGREE AND A HALF
WARMER THAN NORMAL. ALSO OF NOTE...JACKSON AND LONDON BOTH SAW THE
TEMPERATURE WARM TO OVER 90 DEGREES ON JUNE 8TH...THE FIRST
OCCURRENCE OF THE YEAR AT BOTH SITES.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE NEAR JACKSON FINISHED JUNE
2011 WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 73.0 DEGREES...WHICH IS 1.6
DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 71.4 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE DAILY HIGH WAS
82.1 DEGREES...AND THE AVERAGE DAILY LOW WAS 63.8 DEGREES. THE
HIGHEST TEMPERATURE FOR JUNE 2011 WAS 92 DEGREES...WHICH OCCURRED ON
THE 8TH AND ALSO ESTABLISHED A NEW HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORD FOR THAT
DAY. TWO OTHER HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE TIED LAST MONTH...88
DEGREES ON THE 1ST AND 89 DEGREES ON THE 10TH. THE LOWEST
TEMPERATURE FROM JUNE 2011 WAS 55 DEGREES ON THE 14TH. NO LOW
TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET LAST MONTH. A MINIMUM HIGH TEMPERATURE
RECORD WAS TIED ON THE 16TH WITH A READING OF 69 DEGREES. THERE WAS
ALSO ONE MAXIMUM LOW TEMPERATURE RECORD...ON THE 1ST WITH A READING
OF 72 DEGREES. ALSO...JUNE 2011 WAS THE 5TH MONTH IN A ROW WITH
ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES.

THE JACKSON WEATHER OFFICE RECEIVED 5.49 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION IN
JUNE 2011...WHICH IS 0.82 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 4.67 INCHES.
THERE WERE 14 DAYS WHEN A HUNDREDTH OF AN INCH OR MORE OF
PRECIPITATION WAS RECORDED...AND EIGHT DAYS WHEN A TENTH OF AN INCH
OR MORE FELL. THERE WERE THREE DAYS WHEN AT LEAST A HALF AN INCH OF
RAIN WAS RECEIVED...AND ONE DAY WITH MORE THAN ONE INCH. THE DAY OF
THE 20TH NETTED 2.33 INCHES OF RAIN WHICH WAS THE GREATEST DAILY
AMOUNT...AND ALSO SET A NEW DAILY RAINFALL RECORD FOR THAT DAY.
THERE WAS ONE OTHER PRECIPITATION RECORD LAST MONTH...0.86 INCHES ON
THE 10TH. THE MOST PRECIPITATION RECEIVED IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD WAS
2.34 INCHES FROM THE 19TH TO THE 20TH. FOR THE YEAR...THE JACKSON
PRECIPITATION TOTAL IS 33.81 INCHES...WHICH IS 8.57 INCHES ABOVE
NORMAL. ALSO OF NOTE...HAIL FELL AT THE WEATHER OFFICE ON THE 10TH.
THE END OF JUNE MARKED THE END OF THE 2010-2011 SNOW SEASON AS WELL.
JACKSON ENDED UP WITH A TOTAL OF 37.6 INCHES OF SNOW...GOOD ENOUGH
TO BE THE 4TH SNOWIEST EVER.

THUNDER WAS HEARD ON 15 DAYS LAST MONTH AT THE JACKSON WEATHER
OFFICE...WHICH IS ABOVE THE AVERAGE FOR JUNE OF 9.6 DAYS. THERE WERE
18 DAYS WITH FOG...TWO OF WHICH FEATURED DENSE FOG. JUNE NORMALLY
AVERAGES 7.4 DAYS OF DENSE FOG. THE AVERAGE WIND SPEED FOR JUNE WAS
1.7 MPH...AND THE HIGHEST WIND GUST OF 48 MPH WAS RECORDED ON JUNE
10TH. THE MEAN WIND SPEED FOR JUNE IS TYPICALLY 4.4 MPH.

JACKSON ACCUMULATED 2 HEATING DEGREE DAYS LAST MONTH...WHICH IS 8
HEATING DEGREE DAYS BELOW NORMAL FOR THE MONTH. THE END OF JUNE
ENDED THE HEATING DEGREE DAY SEASON. THE SEASONAL TOTAL FINISHED AT
4399 HEATING DEGREE DAYS...WHICH IS 41 HEATING DEGREE DAYS ABOVE
NORMAL FOR THE SEASON. THE JACKSON WEATHER OFFICE RECORDED 250
COOLING DEGREE DAYS DURING JUNE 2011...WHICH IS 49 ABOVE NORMAL. THE
COOLING DEGREE DAY SEASONAL TOTAL IS NOW 434...122 COOLING DEGREE
DAYS ABOVE NORMAL.

AT THE LONDON CORBIN AIRPORT...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 73.2
DEGREES...WHICH IS 1.4 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 71.8 DEGREES FOR
JUNE. THE AVERAGE DAILY HIGH WAS 83.4 DEGREES...AND THE AVERAGE
DAILY LOW WAS 63.1 DEGREES. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE FROM LAST MONTH
WAS 92 DEGREES...WHICH OCCURRED ON THE 8TH...AND ALSO TIED THE
MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORD FOR THAT DAY. THERE WAS A NEW RECORD HIGH
TEMPERATURE ESTABLISHED ON THE 1ST WITH A READING OF 89 DEGREES. THE
LOWEST TEMPERATURE FROM JUNE 2011 WAS 53 DEGREES...AND HAPPENED ON
THE 15TH. NO LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET OR TIED AT LONDON LAST
MONTH.

THE LONDON CORBIN AIRPORT RECORDED 6.43 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION IN
JUNE 2011...WHICH IS 2.19 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 4.24 INCHES.
JUNE 2011 WAS THE 10TH WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD AT LONDON. THERE WERE
13 DAYS WHEN A HUNDREDTH OF AN INCH OR MORE FELL...AND NINE DAYS
WHEN A TENTH OF AN INCH OR MORE OF RAIN WAS RECORDED. LONDON HAD SIX
DAYS WITH AT LEAST A HALF AN INCH...AND FOUR DAYS WITH MORE THAN ONE
INCH. LONDON/S FOUR DAYS WITH MORE THAN AN INCH OF RAINFALL IS THE
MOST EVER FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE. THE GREATEST DAILY AMOUNT WAS 1.13
INCHES AND OCCURRED ON THE 9TH. NO DAILY PRECIPITATION RECORDS WERE
SET OR TIED AT LONDON LAST MONTH. THE GREATEST 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION
AMOUNT WAS 1.44 INCHES FROM THE 18TH THROUGH THE 19TH. THROUGH THE
END OF JUNE...THE LONDON CORBIN AIRPORT HAS TOTALED 34.47
INCHES...WHICH IS 9.19 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. JUNE WAS THE FIFTH
CONSECUTIVE MONTH WITH ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION.

LONDON HAD 12 DAYS WITH THUNDER LAST MONTH. ALSO...THERE WERE 23
DAYS WITH FOG...AND FOUR DAYS WITH DENSE FOG. THE AVERAGE WIND SPEED
FOR JUNE 2011 WAS 4.0 MPH...WITH THE HIGHEST WIND GUST OF 58 MPH
RECORDED ON THE 21ST.

LONDON RECORDED 6 HEATING DEGREE DAYS LAST MONTH...WHICH IS 6
HEATING DEGREE DAYS BELOW NORMAL FOR THE MONTH. JUNE 30TH MARKED THE
END OF THE HEATING DEGREE DAY SEASON...AND LONDON FINISHED UP WITH A
TOTAL OF 4545...WHICH IS 171 HEATING DEGREE DAYS ABOVE NORMAL. THE
LONDON CORBIN AIRPORT HAD 259 COOLING DEGREE DAYS LAST MONTH...WHICH
IS 44 COOLING DEGREE DAYS ABOVE NORMAL. THE COOLING DEGREE DAY
SEASONAL TOTAL IS NOW 421...WHICH IS 103 COOLING DEGREE DAYS ABOVE
NORMAL.

WEATHER RECORDS AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE NEAR JACKSON
KENTUCKY DATE BACK TO JANUARY 1ST 1981...WHILE CLIMATE RECORDS FOR
THE LONDON CORBIN AIRPORT BEGAN ON THE 11TH OF NOVEMBER 1954.